What you'll learn
- Understand how the body holds onto trauma and why working with the body is important.
- How to settle the nervous system.
- How the individual's body uniquely holds onto trauma and can uniquely release it.
- How to set up a daily practice of working with the body for healing.
Requirements
- No prior experience needed.
Description
Many programs focus on healing from past trauma using the mind - that is, paying attention to what happened, as well as how we create ideas and stories based on past pain - stories that drive our experience and behavior today!
While this is one part of the puzzle, there is another aspect of healing that is less discussed. As an expert bodyworker and hypnotherapist with a speciality in trauma, I see how the body holds onto so much and how sometimes we need to let go of thinking our way out, and instead, be present in the body and allow it to release past memories/pain.
Yes, the "body keeps the score" as Bessel Van der Kolk has written in his famous book, but what does that mean when you are suffering?
Emotional pain is often about holding onto past feelings and memories because we don’t know what to do with them, or how to stop them from bothering us. As a consequence, we often ‘lock’ up the pain in our body systems - holding our muscles tightly, becoming shallow breathers, to name just a few strategies. If we don’t do this, if we risk feeling emotional pain and remembering the past, we then might feel unsafe (go into fight or flight or freeze/immobilse) and shut down, further locking the trauma in our bodies.
Healing begins with communicating to your body that you are safe, and then making space for release to happen naturally. In this short course, I take you through some body-based processes in order to help you work at the level where indeed, the body keeps the score.
I will help you learn how to settle your nervous system, how to understand the language of your body so that you can listen and respond, how to release trauma through movement, and how to set up a daily practice of engaging with your body so that healing occurs naturally over time.
Daily practice is key, so I’ve built this short course specifically to encourage you to take your healing into your own hands by constructing a daily practice that is easy and works for you.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who is struggling to move on from a period of emotional suffering, whether it's childhood trauma or more recent adult suffering.
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 130 Reviews
- 1,817 Students
- 4 Courses
I'm a clinical hypnotherapist, mindfulness coach, and bodyworker based in Sydney, Australia. Over the past decade I have specialised in working with trauma, often seeing clients who have survived difficult/abusive childhoods, but also those who have had narcissistic relationships and/or life crises as adults.
My journey has been anything but straightforward!
After receiving a Ph.D. in Economics in 2002, I had a complete career change and dove deep into working as a holistic and alternative practitioner with a speciality in bodywork for emotional healing, especially de-armouring and energetic healing.
I am qualified in NLP, hypnotherapy, myofascial release and craniosacral therapy, life coaching, mindfulness facilitation and Biodynamic Cranial Approach. I am an intuitive by practice, not a psychic by birth, and as such I have cultivated and deepened my intuition over the years. This includes medical intuition, and much else. My experiences have deepened as I have learned techniques for self-care. Due to my academic background, I have always brought a rigorous intellectual approach to my work. I feel that it's important, as best as possible, to understand 'why' something is so, and draw on other disciplines whenever possible for explanation and insight.
I have seen somewhere between many hundreds-a thousand clients, facilitated more than 30 workshops around Australia, and have run three residential retreats. My work sometimes feels like therapy, and is client-led. We do processes and practices when appropriate, and hypnotherapy or more Shamanic work when there is a desire to explore this.
I publish writing regularly in several online publications, especially on Substack. I am a writer by inclination, so when I'm not seeing clients I am most certainly writing!
My passion is in sharing my insight and techniques to help people become more intuitive, connected, and self-loving and ultimately to awaken. I am also the proud mother of three amazing young adult children and stepmom to three amazing girls.